Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset

Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1497-16 April 1587) was the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset.

Biography
Anne Stanhope was born to a noble family, and she was said to be intolerably snobby and prideful, yet also highly intelligent and determined. She married Edward Seymour before 1535, and she was unfaithful towards him with Francis Bryan, who had an illicit affair with him during the late 1530s. In 1547, she became Duchess of Somerset after her husband was made Duke, and her husband became Lord Protector after King Henry VIII's death, making him the most powerful man in all England. Anne was also highly influential, and she was imprisoned at the time of her husband's downfall. She remarried after her husband's execution, and she died at Hanworth Palace in Middlesex in 1587.